Pacific Coast Juror: Mónica Ramírez-Montagut

We are very excited to be working, once again, with Mónica Ramírez-Montagut. This time, given her new post at The San Jose Museum of Art, she will be jurying the 2012 Pacific Coast issue of New American Paintings. The competition includes artists residing in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington. If that is you, now is your chance to apply to New American Paintings.

The Deadline is June 30, Midnight, EST.

Learn more about Mónica after the jump!

Mónica Ramírez-Montagut is the Senior Curator for The San Jose Museum of Art since June 2012. Previous to this position she was the Curator at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, and prior to The Aldrich, she was Assistant Curator of architecture and design at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. At the Guggenheim, Ramírez-Montagut worked on the exhibitions Zaha Hadid and Restoring a Masterpiece: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum, and Cai Guo-Qiang. She has also served as the Curator of Collections and Public Programs at the Price Tower Arts Center (PTAC), Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

Ramírez-Montagut received her bachelor of architecture degree from the Universidad Ibero Americana in Mexico City and her master of architecture and Ph.D. from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, ETSAB, in Barcelona.